- Sep 25, 2025
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Updated: Sep 26, 2025
Sleep on Set: UK Film & TV Locations Offering Overnight Stays, September 2025
Films and interiors go hand in hand. They are so closely connected that many of us will have been touched by a film in such a way that it creeps into our lives and our own interiors. I am constantly bewildered by love from my sojourns in the cinema.
Most recently I watched Phantom Thread, an extraordinarily glorious film in which any lover of interiors would have their breath snatched away by each of the opening scenes. But it was the final scenes that convinced me this article was a winner. The couple sit in a kitchen—a kitchen so perfectly constructed, with its timber fire and a slightly battered coolie shade- that I found myself believing the perfect kitchen might not be so hard to find after all. You simply need the keys to Owlpen Manor and, hey presto, you’re living in my Paul Thomas Anderson dream. While those keys may be out of reach, the promise of staying nearby is not: the estate has several houses available to rent, and if you’re inclined to go further, you can even host a party there.
It got us thinking about all the other sites you could visit straight from the silver screen. So Charlotte Becque has put together one hell of a list—enough to make any cinephile-interiors lover grab their suitcase and set off in search of the great movie sets.
Phantom Thread
Four Weddings And A Funeral
Four Weddings And A Funeral Four Weddings And A Funeral
Location & Stay: The Kings Arms Hotel
Downtown Abbey
Location: Highclere Castle
Downtown Abbey Downtown Abbey
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 1
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1 Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1(Image: Screen Rant)
Location & Stay: Airbnb - De Vere House Room 2. Lady Elizabeth
Agatha Christie's Poirot – Evil Under The Sun
Agatha Christie's Poirot – Evil Under The Sun Agatha Christie's Poirot – Evil Under The Sun
Wolf Hall
Location: Haddon Hall
BBC: Wolf Hall BBC Timothy Spall, Alex Jennings, Damian Lewis, Mark Rylance, Thomas Brodie-Sangster & Martyn Mayger
Stay: The Peacock at Rowsley
Poldark
Location: Chavenage House
Poldark Poldark Filming at Chavenage House
Stay: Egypt Mill Cotswolds
The Witches
The Witches (1990) Jane Horrocks and Anjelica Huston in The Witches (1990) The Headland
Location & Stay: The Headland
Pride & Prejudice
Location: Chatsworth House
Pride & Prejudice Pride & Prejudice
Stay: The Cavendish Hotel
The Cavendish Hotel The Cavendish Hotel
Sex Education
Sex Education, Netflix The Chalet, Symonds Yat East, Sex Education, Grazia
Location & Stay: The Chalet, Symonds Yat East
About Time
About Time Richard Cordery, Lindsay Duncan, Bill Nighy, Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie - About Time
Location & Stay: Porthpean House
Mary Queen of Scots
Location: National Trust - Hardwick Hall
The Crown - As Balmoral
Location: Ardverikie
The Crown, Netflix Picture shows: BEHIND THE SCENES Filming Location: Ardverikie Estate, Kinloch Laggan Newtonmore Inve
Stay: Ardverikie - Gatelodge
Peaky Blinders
Location: Arley Hall
Netflix/ BBC: Peaky Blinders Netflix/ BBC: Peaky Blinders, Arley Hall
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes (2009) Sherlock Holmes (2009) Starring: Robert Downey Jr & Rachel McAdams
Location & Stay: Clivden House
The Secret Garden (1993)
Location: Allerton Castle
Stay: The General Tarleton
The General Tarleton The General Tarleton
Brideshead Revisited
Location: Castle Howard
The King's Speech
Location: Knebworth House
The King's Speech Copyright UK Film Council / Speaking Film Productions Ltd. The King's Speech
Knebworth House, Gardener’s Cottage Knebworth House, Gardener’s Cottage Knebworth House, Gardener’s Cottage
Sense And Sensibility
Location: National Trust's - Montacute House
Sense And Sensibility
The Lobster
The Lobster The Lobster, Parknasilla Hotel
Location & Stay: Parknasilla Hotel
Miss Potter
Miss Potter Miss Potter, Yew Tree Farm
Location & Stay: Yew Tree Farm
Anna Karenina
Location: National Trust - Ham House And Garden
Anna Karenina Keira Knightley as Anna Karenina at Ham House | © © Focus Features
Stay: Bingham Riverhouse
